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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Volatility on Economic Growth on Kenya: EGARCH Analysis
(Science Publishing Group, 2014)This study investigated the impact foreign direct investment volatility on growth in Kenya using time series data spanning 1970 to 2011. An endogenous growth model was estimated using the ordinary least squares to determine ... -
Impact of Tariff Liberalization on Economic and Social Benefits: Computable General Equilibrium Application to Kenya
(Wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/polp, 2024)This study employed computable general equilibrium policy simulations to examine the impact of tariff liberalization on socioeconomic outcomes including living standards, cost of living, gross domestic product (GDP) from ... -
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on grain and fertilizer supply: Evidence from Kenya
(World Food Policy., 2023)This paper examines the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on grain and fertilizer supply to Kenya as the sixth largest economy in Africa using the Regression Discontinuity estimator on monthly data spanning from January 2017 ... -
Institutions and Export Performance: Firm Level Evidence from Kenya
(International Review of Economics, 2022)This study sought to examine how institutions shape export performance using Kenyan data. The left-censored random-effects Tobit and the random-effects Generalized Least Squares (GLS) estimators were applied on panel ... -
Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers and Fiscal Capacity
(International Journal of Public Administration, 2016)An intergovernmental fiscal transfer is an instrument used by governments to equalize fiscal capacity. However, with the large discrepancies in fiscal capacity among Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya, it is evident that the ... -
Making it to the PhD: Gender and student performance in sub-Saharan Africa
(Plos One, 2020)Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) impedes progress in solving Africa’s complex development problems. As in other regions, women’s participation in STEM drops progressively ... -
Promoting Sustainable Environments through Urban Green Spaces: Insights from Kenya
(Sustainability Journal, 2023)Abstract: Kenya has experienced rapid population growth and urbanization in recent years leading to major changes in its natural environment. Urban infrastructure has a significant influence on carbon emissions and ... -
Spatial Variation of Household Energy Consumption Across Counties in Kenya
(African Geographical Review, 2020)Kenya has reported a trajectory of success towards universal access to sustainable and modern energy sources over the past years. However, the discussion on the spatial variations of energy consumption is limited especially, ... -
Teacher Beliefs About Sustainable Agriculture: A Self-made Measurement Scale
(Asian Social Science, 2020)The study‟s purpose was to analyze the validity of the construct of a self-made Alternative-Conventional Agricultural Paradigm scale using the teacher population teaching high school agriculture in the North Central Region ... -
Teacher Differences in Beliefs and Perceptions About Sustainable Agriculture: Influence on the Teaching of High School Agriculture Curriculum
(Asian Social Science, 2022)The purpose of the study was to determine agriculture teacher differences in beliefs and perceptions about sustainable agriculture (SA) and the associations of these with the teaching of SA in the 12 states of the Midwest ... -
Trade Agreements, Technical Regulations, and Standards: Competitiveness Implications for Kenyan Exporters to European Union
(The European Journal of Development Research, 2023)The European Union imports over 22.4% of total Kenyan exports and is market to over 51.3% of Kenya’s untapped export potential. However, there is a dearth of knowledge on how trade agreements, technical regulations, and ... -
Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth: The Role of Regulatory Policies
(Journal of World Economic Research, 2013)This paper investigates the relationship between international trade liberalization and economic growth with a focus on the role of regulatory policies in a selected sample of sixteen sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. ...